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We are too small to be a target! We have often heard this phrase, but while it might be true of a Foreign Government or Intelligence agency, it really is not true of the average cyber attack nowadays. Criminals are using automatic systems to attack IP addresses, if you are connected to the internet you

If you have not heard already, there’s some bad news for the IT industry as a whole. The way modern processors (the brain of the machine) are optimised means they are vulnerable to carefully constructed attacks. These attacks potentially can steal data from other processes running on your machine (effectively eavesdropping on other stuff on

Just had a couple of co-incidences last 2 weeks which made me think. First of which, I was talking to a potential customer about how backup was essential and the risks of ransomware and the next week the company’s secretary in-inadvertently clicked the wrong link and infected her machine, encrypting its contents. Luckily this didn’t

If you have been reading our website or visited our shop you will see we list prices for our support packages, have fixed prices for servicing machines you drop in to us and generally are upfront with pricing in general. Now I’ll be brutally honest, this probably makes us less money. A business structure that

One of the best ways you can up the security of a system is not running a day to day account as an administrator. Admins have rights to change the system and install programs. These rights can be passed on to applications that run from the internet allowing things to install in the background. This

Fraud and ransoming data is big money nowadays. If you get a call, email or web popup offering IT support or warning you about a problem be very suspicious. Of course if its from your regular IT provider and you are monitored by them you can probably relax a bit, but fraudsters are using this

Its a bane of every IT provider’s life when they hear the “friend up the road/ daughters boyfriend/ guy I know from the pub/etc. helped me try to fix my PC and now it’s even more broken.” Would the average person let someone who tinkers with their car, service their main source of transport? Would they

The internet and social media are fantastic ways to communicate and share with friends, customers and colleagues. However what you type and share can have a serious effect on how people view you in the future. If you discuss things on social media (and we include blogs such as this in that), you need to